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NewZine Archives : 2010 : June 15 Issue – Productive Obsessions
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| June 15, 2010 | Productive Obsessions |
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“You want to be a snow globe and not a soda can. You want to self-regulate. When you create brainstorms you’re creating internal lightning and thunder: but you also want to be able to control that energy so that when it’s time to read your daughter a bedtime story you can effortlessly shut down your obsession.” — Eric Maisel, PhD, Brainstorm Interview |
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June 15, 2010 Journal |
On Morning Pages and Other Creativity Tools, Coaching Philosophies
By Chris Dunmire, Publisher
If you've read Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, then you know all about writing morning pages. In short, this early a.m. writer's exercise works well for some people as a daily structure and tool for processing/getting through/moving past whatever is occupying the mind to free it for the day's creative work. Get out the glurge; clear the mind; leave all the clutter way behind. More »
Introducing Writer Kristin Donovan
I'm happy to introduce you to our newest series author on Creativity Portal: Kristin Donovan. "Kristin facilitates creativity groups for women and leads journal writing workshops in the Pacific Northwest and online. Her web site, JournalingSaves.com, helps you enrich your life, clarify your emotions, and jump start your creativity through journaling." Read Kristin's second inspiring article on C-P: Need More Color in Your Life? Welcome, Kristin!

Chris Dunmire
Creatologist & Expressioneer
Creativity-Portal.com
P.S. In case you're following it, part 2 of Doodling: Attention Deficit Disorder or Surplus Reorder? is now up. |
| Monthly Columns & Featured Series |
Creative Careers In the Arts Interviews
Interview with Spiritual Writing Coach Penny MacPherson
By Molly Anderson-Childers
Q: Can you talk about the aspect of a scribal anointing, and what that means to your work as a writer and teacher?
Creativity in Motion
K-5 Lesson Plan: Cookie Monster Recess Running Game
By Michele Batz
What do you get when you cross the classic school yard games Mother-May-I and Red-Light-Green-Light with cookies and kids?
Inspiring Creativity Success Story
Imagination: The Image-Forming Power of the Mind
By Michael Harman
The inspiring story behind Colour Buddy™, its creative doodles, art, mind puzzles, picture posters, and games. |
| Spotlight Book & Excerpt |
The Logic of Brainstorms
By Eric and Ann Maisel
To be the ethical, engaged, creative, successful, and lively human being you intend to be, you need your brain. But it is not enough to possess a perfectly good brain — you must also use it. If you don’t use your brain you will find yourself trapped in trivialities, condemned to impulsivity, led around by anxiety, and duller and sadder than you have any need to be. The cliché is true: your mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Plus: Interview with Eric Maisel about Brainstorm and Productive Obsessions
Eric Maisel, PhD, is the author of Brainstorm and numerous other titles including Creativity for Life, Coaching the Artist Within, and A Writer’s San Francisco. Ann Mathesius Maisel, MA, is a former teacher and school administrator now engaged in researching the productive obsessions of historical and contemporary figures. This excerpt if from their new book Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions (New World Library, 2010). |
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Need More Color in Your Life?
By Kristin Donovan
Regular journaling provides endless benefits. Perhaps one of the most magical it its ability to slow down time, to effortlessly etch images in your memory, and breathe life into everyday occurrences.
Self-Acceptance with Expressive Art
By Shelley Klammer
Another way to get a "read" on what is unfolding from inside of you is to put together a quick spontaneous collage.
Raised Stencil Terra-Cotta Flower Pot Tutorial
By Joy St. Germain
Terra-cotta flower pots are fun to paint. They come in a variety of different sizes and are fairly inexpensive.
Creativity As A Learnable Skill
By Edward Glassman, PhDt
Here is a devastating creativity-spoiling habit...thinking you are not creative.
Plus: Habits Managers Need To Change To Help Creativity |
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